Results 1-12 of 12 for drugs speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If I may, I will just ask one more short question on the €1.4 million cost of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. Is that the annual cost or total cost of that citizens' assembly? Is it in line with the costs of citizens' assemblies held in the past? I ask because it is time for a citizens' assembly on Irish unity. As the Taoiseach knows, the Good Friday Agreement provides for a...

Rare Diseases: Statements (6 Mar 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...to sodium valproate. The guide to rare diseases in Ireland states that FVS is: a range of devastating birth defects that can occur from the side effects of taking an anti-epilepsy or other drugs which contain valproic acid during pregnancy. Despite studies dating back to the 1980s ... governments ... were slow to act on overwhelming evidence of the side effects ... Progress on...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...in the towel on health. Sinn Féin would invest in health services. We have seen the alarming rise of poverty among older people and people with disabilities, and one of the burdens is the cost of healthcare and medicine. Sinn Féin would reduce the maximum monthly drugs payment to €50, abolish prescription charges and extend medical cards to 400,000 additional people....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...To ask the Minister for Health the process by which pregnant women experiencing extreme nausea and vomiting can obtain medication cariban; the reason GP’s are not able to prescribe cariban on the drug payment scheme given that the majority of women do not see their consultant until well into second trimester and it is the current standard practice in other EU member states; and if...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2022)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...Would the Taoiseach and the Minister be able to do that? It would be very good if the Taoiseach could do that before he leaves office. If the vaccine could be made available, at a minimum, under the drugs payment scheme, that would in some way ease things.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 Nov 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 656. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered including cariban on the drug payment scheme for persons suffering with hyperemesis gravidarum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54584/21]

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...Some have been medically advised by their consultants and doctors. They do not have medical cards. The €600 being demanded for the HPV vaccine is not right. Can the Minister include it in the drugs payment scheme, at a minimum? It should be free. I am not asking for it for everybody. I know the programme is there but I keep getting back benign answers to my questions. There...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (3 Jun 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: ...extending the age limit. Perhaps the Minister could clarify that as well. Numerous questions were raised today around criminal activities, including killings, corporate crime, gangland violence, drug crimes, domestic violence, sexual crimes and cybercrime. All those things are posing huge challenges to An Garda Síochána, as well as the organisation undergoing a huge change...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (6 May 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Immunisation Advisory Committee advised against the inclusion of the HPV vaccine in the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23501/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (28 Apr 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 1020. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for not including the HPV vaccine on the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21865/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Mar 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Why is the human papilloma virus, HPV, vaccine not covered under the drugs payment scheme for women who are advised to get it by their consultants or medical practitioners? The reason I ask is that the cost of the HPV vaccine is €600. Many families and women who do not qualify for a medical card because the thresholds are so low are under severe financial pressure. Forcing them to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (13 Jan 2021)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 855. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider including the HPV vaccine within the drugs payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45049/20]